Клуб любителей английского языка

В одно время увлекалась темой образного мышления и пользе воображения. У меня была книжка о том, как доносить свои мысли с помощью метафор. Сегодня делюсь выдержками из книги о воображении.

1. We think in pictures even though we speak and write with words.

2. The human mind is not a debating hall, but a picture gallery.

3. Imagination is a womb that is impregnant with the old so that it might give birth to the new. It is the bridge that links the world around you with the world within you.

4. He who has imagination but no knowledge has wings but no feet.

5. We may take Fancy for a companion, but we must follow Reason as our guide.

6. Imagination must be fed just as mind and heart must be fed.

7. Images 'feed' concepts, concepts 'discipline' images. Images without concepts are blind, concepts without images are sterile.

8. Strange words simply puzzle us; ordinary words convey only what we know already; it is from metaphors that we can best get hold of something fresh.

9. Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

10. Civilization begins in the imagination. The wild dream is the first step to reality.

11. Imagination is the eye of the soul.

12. True creativity often starts where language ends.

13. How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

14. Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

15. A life lived without fantasy and day dreams is a seriously impoverished one.

16. The great teacher is the one who turns listener's ears into eyes so they can see the truth.